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'American Sniper' Hits (the Road) Home'“The film was a moving and accurate portrayal of the impact combat has on our soldiers and, especially, their families,” said Mark Pollack MD, chairman of Rush's Department of Psychiatry.

Below is a list of scientific publications for which this practitioner was either the primary author or a contributor. Citations come from PubMed, a database of biomedical literature, life science journals and online books. PubMed is a service of the US Library of Medicine at the National Institutes of Health. Click on the title of the cited work for more information (this will take you directly to PubMed.gov). Listings go back five years.

Patient feedback information is available for physicians employed by Rush University Medical Center who have received
30 or more patient surveys. Responses are measured on a scale of 1 to 5, with 5 being the best score.

Friendliness/courtesy of the care provider

4.8

Explanations the care provider gave you about your problem or condition

4.8

Concern the care provider showed for your questions or worries

4.8

Likelihood of your recommending this care provider to others

4.8

Care provider's efforts to include you in decisions about your treatment

4.8

Information the care provider gave you about medications

4.7

Instructions the care provider gave you about follow-up care

4.7

Your confidence in this care provider

4.8

Degree to which care provider talked with you using words you could understand

4.7

Amount of time the care provider spent with you

4.7

For more information about patient feedback, see the Quality Care section of the Rush University Medical Center website.

To watch a brief video of Mark T. DeMeo, MD, click the play button at the lower left corner of the video frame below.

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Everybody that comes in the door has a different story. And so you start off trying to be a detective, and you pull in the information that you have. And then you have the ability at a place like Rush where you can then access other colleagues who have different experiences and different information. And you have all the medical journals in our library. And you piece it together, and you bring it back to your patient. And when it works, it’s the greatest thing in the world.

Celiac disease is an immune-mediated reaction to the proteins in all the grass grains— so wheat, barley, and rye — and that protein collectively is called gluten. The treatment for celiac disease for a long time, and still the mainstay of therapy, is the gluten-free diet, removing that from the diet. However other drugs are in the oft, waiting to be introduced. I think that over time we are going to learn more. And trying to unravel those things and to be part of this evolving disease is very exciting.